---
name: lythoskill-dreaming
version: {{PACKAGE_VERSION}}
description: |
  夜有所梦 — project memory consolidation. Daily (scribe) captures raw
  experience, weekly extracts patterns and anomalies, dreaming consolidates
  the accumulated memory into the single source of truth (SSOT).
  External review via a zero-knowledge subagent (a fresh agent with no
  conversation context — the same pattern Hermes Curator uses for
  forked-agent review), with cross-model validation via arena for
  critical docs.
when_to_use: |
  After major documentation changes, weekly cleanup, pre-onboarding prep,
  context pressure is high, wiki/ADR has grown stale, user says "做梦",
  "整理文档", "consolidate", "SSOT", "sleep on it", "memory consolidation".
---

# Dreaming — 夜有所梦

> 日有所思（daily + weekly），夜有所梦（dreaming → SSOT）。
> Scan → Consolidate → ZK Validate. Extract the "currently true" from scattered docs.

## The Project's Memory System

Project documentation works like human memory:

| Layer | Tool | What it does |
|-------|------|-------------|
| **日有所思** — 经历 | `scribe daily` | Raw session capture: what was done, what was decided, what went wrong |
| **日有所思** — 复盘 | `scribe weekly` | Cross-session pattern extraction: core threads, anomalies, docs now stale |
| **夜有所梦** — 巩固 | `dreaming` | Memory consolidation: extract "currently true" from accumulated docs → SSOT |

Daily 不是流水账，weekly 不是 daily 的汇总。Daily 是 session 级 raw experience，weekly 是跨 session 的模式识别（core_thread、anomaly、docs_now_stale）——本质上是在反腐：发现漂移、标记腐烂、追踪 gap 收敛。Dreaming 是在积累了足够的 daily + weekly 之后，把分散在 wiki/ADR/daily 中尚未腐烂的有效信息提取为 SSOT——就像睡眠中大脑把短期记忆巩固为长期记忆。

## 第一原理

这个模式是我们从 document rot 出发，从自己的 weekly 实践中自然长出来的。Weekly 已经在做反腐——跨 session 检测 anomalies、标记 docs_now_stale、追踪 gap 收敛。Dreaming 是 weekly 的自然延伸：weekly 发现了什么在腐烂，dreaming 把还没腐烂的提取出来固化。

听说过 Hermes Curator 的 dreaming 机制，觉得我们在做的事类似，发起了田野调查——果然，独立交叉对到同一个答案。然后正确迁移到了项目文档管理场景。田野调研见 [`references/hermes-dreaming-field-notes.md`](./references/hermes-dreaming-field-notes.md)。

**核心洞察：维护应该是独立周期，不嵌入每次任务。**

## Three-Phase Flow

### Phase 1: Scan — Start from weekly, not from raw

**Primary index: the weekly chain.** Weeklies (W17-W22) are pre-built importance-ranked summaries. Each weekly already contains:

- `core_thread` — the 1-2 most important clusters per week
- `docs_now_stale` — ADRs/wiki that became outdated each week
- `decisions_accepted` — which ADRs landed when
- Anomalies surfaced — CLI renames, missing ADRs, build-then-reject cycles

Start from weekly, not from raw scan:

```bash
ls weekly/ | sort                          # Read all weeklies
cat weekly/*.md | grep "docs_now_stale"    # Extract stale-doc index across all weeks
cat weekly/*.md | grep "decisions_accepted" # Build ADR timeline from weekly
```

**Why this is better**: 81 ADRs + 54 wiki + 25 dailies ≈ impossible to scan cold. The weekly chain is 6 files that tell you *what mattered and what's outdated*. Weekly is dreaming's pre-built index — like Obsidian's map of content.

**Fallback** (only when weeklies are missing or incomplete):
```bash
bun packages/lythoskill-project-cortex/src/cli.ts probe
ls -lt cortex/adr/02-accepted/ | head -20
git log --since="30 days ago" --oneline -- cortex/wiki/ cortex/adr/
```

Agent reads weekly chain → identifies:
- **Already stale**: flagged in `docs_now_stale` across any weekly
- **Superseded**: ADR mentioned in a later weekly's `decisions_accepted` that contradicts an earlier one
- **Duplicate**: same insight appearing in multiple wiki entries
- **Orphaned**: references to tasks/epics that no longer exist

### Phase 2: Consolidate

Write to `cortex/wiki/04-ssot/`. One file per major topic area. Each SSOT file is:

- **Short** (< 500 lines) — a fresh agent can read it in one pass
- **Self-contained** — links to source ADRs/wiki for detail, but doesn't require reading them
- **Current** — reflects what's TRUE NOW, not what was true at some point in history
- **Dated** — frontmatter `last_consolidated: 2026-05-28` so reader knows freshness

Example SSOT topics:
- `architecture.md` — current system architecture (not design history)
- `conventions.md` — active code/doc conventions (not deprecated ones)
- `key-decisions.md` — ADRs that still hold (superseded ones noted but not replayed)
- `pitfalls.md` — recurring failure modes and their fixes

**Update `cortex/wiki/01-patterns/INDEX.md`** (ADR-20260613190449007 maintenance loop — a stale index is more misleading than none). Judgment rules (from the ADR, verbatim):

- 被 ≥2 个 weekly 的 `decisions_accepted` 或 `project_lesson_candidates` 引用 → P0
- 已被 `04-ssot/*.md` 引用的模式 → P1
- 其他 → P2

When this phase absorbs a pattern into an SSOT file, move its INDEX entry to P1 and name the absorbing file in its TL;DR. When a weekly newly cites a pattern for the second time (≥2 distinct weeklies), promote it to P0.

### Phase 3: ZK Validate

After writing SSOT, spawn a **zero-knowledge subagent**:

```
ZK subagent prompt:
  "You have NO prior context about this project. Read these SSOT files:
   - cortex/wiki/04-ssot/architecture.md
   - cortex/wiki/04-ssot/conventions.md
   Self-report: what do you understand? What is unclear? What seems contradictory?"

Agent evaluates the ZK subagent's self-report:
  - Misunderstood sections → SSOT needs revision (writing assumed context that doesn't exist)
  - "Where is X?" questions → SSOT is missing a topic
  - Contradictions flagged → SSOT inherited stale info from source docs
```

**For critical SSOT documents**, escalate to cross-model validation:

```
arena single --player kimi --brief "Read cortex/wiki/04-ssot/architecture.md and self-report your understanding"
```

If kimi also understands → document is broadly usable, not Claude-specific.

## Relationship with Other Tools

| Tool | Role in Dreaming |
|------|-----------------|
| `cortex probe` | Input: detects stale tasks, epic drift, empty shells |
| `deck validate` | Input: checks if referenced skill paths still exist |
| `curator scan` | Input: cold pool freshness — are our skill references valid? |
| `arena single` | ZK validation L2: cross-model readability check |
| `scribe daily` | Records dreaming session output |

## When NOT to Dream

- Mid-task, mid-refactor — dreaming is a between-sessions activity
- When the working tree is dirty — commit first
- When there's an active emergency epic — firefighting takes priority

## Dreaming Output Contract

Every SSOT file must have:

```yaml
---
last_consolidated: 2026-05-28
sources: ["cortex/adr/02-accepted/ADR-xxx.md", "cortex/wiki/01-patterns/xxx.md"]
zk_validated: true
zk_issues: 0
# Recommended for self-description (required for new files where they apply):
related: ["packages/lythoskill-x/skill/references/xxx.md"]   # adjacent authoritative docs
summary: |
  One paragraph: what this SSOT covers + who its primary reader is.
---
```

## Supporting References

| When you need to… | Read |
|--------------------|------|
| Read the Hermes Curator field notes | [`references/hermes-dreaming-field-notes.md`](./references/hermes-dreaming-field-notes.md) |
| See the ZK validation pattern in action | AGENTS.md § ZK Validation Pattern |